[Bug 22073] 'Meta' key is the same as the 'OS' or 'Win' key

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22073

--- Comment #2 from Gary Kacmarcik <garykac@google.com> ---
As I understand it, the Win/Command/Meta were always intended to map to the
same key, but the Windows browsers never implemented that part. This is
consistent with the definitions in the USB* spec and it explains why the "Win"
key is missing from the original spec (which would be a blatant omission).

I think that "Super" and "Hyper" should really be encoded as separate keys - it
seems wrong to map them to the same key value.

Does the following make sense for you:
             Windows         Mac                 Linux
"Super":    <no key>        <no key>             Super key
"Hyper:     <no key>        <no key>             Hyper key
"Meta":   Win logo key     command key           Meta key

The only thing I don't really like about it is that pressing the logo key on
Linux generates "Super" by default (rather than "Meta" like Mac/Win).


* See the "GUI" key in:
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/Hut1_11.pdf
Page 59, footnotes 10, 23 and 24.

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Received on Saturday, 18 May 2013 00:39:32 UTC